STATE OF NEW YORK
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5736
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 28, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to special
license plates for vehicles owned or used by people with disabilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 404-a of the vehicle and traffic
2 law, as amended by chapter 191 of the laws of 1991, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 2. Registration of vehicles owned or used by severely disabled
5 persons. The commissioner shall assign to such motor vehicles, including
6 any van or pick-up truck used for transporting persons with disabilities
7 or any specialized vehicle, as defined by paragraph b of subdivision
8 sixteen of section four hundred one of this article, which is not used
9 for commercial purposes, owned by such persons, or the parents or guard-
10 ians of such persons, a distinctive number and issue and deliver in such
11 manner as the commissioner may select to the owner a certification of
12 registration, in such form as the commissioner shall prescribe and two
13 number plates, called disabled person plates. Said disabled person
14 plates shall conform to the requirements of section four hundred one of
15 this [chapter] article, but shall bear distinctive marks to distinguish
16 them from number plates to be issued to other persons, qualifying under
17 this chapter. The commissioner, in [his] such commissioner's discretion,
18 may issue, for any registration year, only one plate as a set for a
19 motor vehicle, in which event a set of disabled person plates for a
20 motor vehicle shall consist of one plate. Where a severely disabled
21 person, or by the parents or guardians of such persons, owns more than
22 one vehicle and such vehicle or vehicles is or are used by severely
23 disabled members of the owner's family who reside with the owner, the
24 commissioner shall issue one set of plates for each additional vehicle
25 owned or used by such severely disabled person, or by the parents or
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 guardians of such persons, provided that such owner or user, or the
2 child of such owner or user, qualifies as a severely disabled person in
3 the manner required by this section.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
